In this report, we discuss the first quarter 2021 results of the rental market component of our FNB Commercial Property Broker Survey...
John Loos 20 Apr 2021
We continue with the first quarter 2021 results of our FNB Commercial Property Broker Survey, which surveys a sample of commercial property brokers in the six major metros of South Africa...
John Loos 8 Apr 2021
Over 40% of brokers surveyed see office-bound companies revising their office space needs and in many cases downscaling. The planned downscaling is not only due to greater levels of work-from-home, however...
John Loos 25 Mar 2021
FNB Commercial Property Finance recently held its Quarterly Property Market briefing and the focus was on key retail property themes...
John Loos 23 Mar 2021
Inospace CEO Rael Levitt unpacks why distribution centres and warehouses are set to become "the new 'hot' property class"...
Rael Levitt 9 Mar 2021
As the fight against Covid-19 rages on, the property sector shows a bag of mixed results with some parts of the sector...
Herbert Seabelo Theledi 28 Jan 2021
Looking ahead, here is our forecast for South Africa's property landscape in the year to come...
Paul Stevens 6 Jan 2021
Earlier in the year, we discussed the three major provincial regions' (Gauteng, KZN and Western Cape) property markets' ability to handle the major economic shock emanating from the coronavirus-related lockdowns...
John Loos 16 Nov 2020
Given that 2019 levels of GDP were already insufficient to prevent rising average property vacancy rates, an even lower level of GDP is likely to imply lower demand for space (than 2019), and a further rise in average vacancy rates through the forecast period...
John Loos 2 Nov 2020
The sounds emanating from the property market in recent months seem to point to two almost totally different worlds...
John Loos 18 Sep 2020
The real estate industry is going through significant change for the first time in my 20-year history in this business. And it is technology-driven. I expect that more and more, players in our industry will adapt their business models to ensure that they stay relevant in times to come...
Paul Stevens 27 Jan 2020
We head into 2020 with little in the way of improvement in key leading economic indicators, suggesting to us that the commercial property market will likely see "more of the same" this year...
John Loos 21 Jan 2020
The bottom line in owning commercial property is to make money, but this won't happen if you are experiencing frequent vacancies...
Leon Breytenbach 10 May 2019
What a difference a decade makes! Ten years ago, the retail environments industry was almost desperate for help in understanding "all that green stuff"...
Leo Van De Polder 9 Apr 2019
The shopping centre ecosystem is facing an apocalypse. Why? Because shops are middlemen and the internet is killing middlemen...
Alan Knott-Craig 11 Feb 2019
